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Hinder them not!—even Love may spare In blindness many a wayward shoot,— Or weakly let the usurping tare Divert the health-stream from their root, Oh! by that negligence supine Which oft the fairest page doth blot, And shroud the ray of light divine, Hinder them not.

Cold world!—the teachings of thy guile Awhile from these young hearts restrain; Oh spare that unsuspicious smile Which never must return again; By folly's wile, by falsehood's kiss Too soon acquir'd, too late forgot, By sins that shut the soul from bliss, Hinder them not.

 

rose a cry of violence and pain, And of the earth I ask’d—if nought remained Amid her moral lazar-house, to cleanse This vital taint, and make the leprous whole? —"Yea, she replied, The followers of Christ!— They are the purifying principle, The salt of earth." Then I beheld a flood Of dark corruption.—Far and wide it spread,— And many sported on its fatal brink, 